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MOVIELAND'S "DOLL"
Movieland bustle and glamor has temporarily invaded a small corner
of Sydney for the shooting of the Hecht-Hill-Lancaster production of
"Summer of the Seventeenth Doll."
NEXT week filming will be completed
on this screen version of Ray Lawler's
play, and, shortly after, its international
stars - Anne Baxter, John Mills, Ernest
Borgnine, and Angela Lansbury - will
leave for home.
Then will come the job of cutting and
editing - a task never before attempted in
Australia on a film made with overseas
capital.
The black-and-white film, the most im-
portant movie ever made in Sydney, is
directed by Leslie Norman, the director of
"The Shiralee" and "Dunkirk."
These color pictures by staff photog-
rapher Keith Barlow are scenes from
"The Doll," which will be seen by world-
wide audiences when it is released in six
or seven months-possibly after a Sydney
world premiere.
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AMERICAN STAK
Ernest Borgnine
(above), pictured in
character for hit
role in "The Doll."
in which he plays
Roo. a likeable, rum-
bustious cane-cntter.
THE BEGINNING of the 17th summer
(right). Down in Sydney from, the cane-
fields, Barney (John Mills) and Roo are
met at Circular Quay by Roo's girl-friend,
Olive (Anne Baxter), and Pearl (Angela
Lmnsbury), unenthusiastic replacement for
Barney's old girl. Nancy, whose marriage
broke up a foursome of 16 years' standing.
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THE END of the wonderful 16th summer (above). Accompanied by Olive and Nancy
(out of camera range, but played by Jessica Noad). the boys make a wild last-minute
dash for Central Station and their north-bound train. As usual, the four had spent the
cane-cutters lay-off season together at the Milton's Point residential (shown at right)
run by Olive's mother, Emma. In the play. Nancy was referred to, but did not appear.
The film version of "The Doll" differs considerably from Lauder's original one-set play,
when 16th summer was simply referred to in dialogue. Film shows hotel where Olive
is a barmaid, and next-door barber's where Pearl, a barmaid in the play, it a manicurist.
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LEFT: Emma (Ethel Gabriel) it shown watering
tired flowers on the verandah oj her Milton's

Point residential. Ethel Gabriel also played <
the Emma role in the Australian, London, ¿nd
Mew York stage productions of "The Doll."

THE

SETTING

JN Ray Lawlers

play the setting
for "The Doll" was
in the Melbourne
suburb of Carlton,
but Sydney was con-
sidered more pictori-
ally suitable and
convenient for the
demands of the
screen version. Holly-
wood set the action
in Glen St., Milson's
Point, an old residen-
tial suburb situated
on the northern side

of Sydney Harbor.

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LEFT: The Milson's
Point home of Miss
Florence Carlon,
which, during the
shooting of "'The
Doll," became 'Tam-
ma's place." The
camera lights and
equipment outside
the house give, hint
of bustle to come
when filming began.

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ABOVE: Barney and Olive (John Mills and
Anne Baxter) share one of the few jokes of the
summer that was to prove full of dramatic
changes. Both American and Australian dialogue
versions have been recorded of some scenes.

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RIGHT: Thc view
from Emma's veran-

dah, looking across
Luna Park, where
some of the scenes

took place, and over

the Harbor to Walsh
Bay and Pyrmont.

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